Lincoln Center banks on Hanks

Celebs roast, praise veteran actor in N.Y.

NEW YORK Tom Hanks took the stage of one of Gotham’s most exalted performance spaces April 27 and posed the rhetorical question that had been on the minds of many all night.

“Who knew that F-bombs would be dropping on Alice Tully Hall?” he said.

A starry cavalcade took turns praising and roasting filmdom’s ultimate Everyman at the revamped Tully in between film clips, several peppering their remarks with curses. The dinner and show for 1,100 raised $1.2 million for the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which is in the midst of a bold expansion as part of the arts complex’s makeover.